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Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Nobody asks you to do this. The world out there is not panting after another novelist. We choose it

I guess I've always been an aspiring novelist. I went to Princeton and wrote a novel for my thesis.

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

You have to say I am forgiven again and again until it becomes the story you believe about yourself.

Actors love to do extreme things, so that is why they become actors; otherwise, they'd be novelists.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

I consider myself foremost a novelist with the intent of crafting stories that people will remember.

There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

I want to be a popular novelist who's also serious, or a serious novelist who's also very accessible.

Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature…literature should be left to essayists.

Having judged a few competitions, it's clear that novelists are often the laziest short story writers.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

I think women are foolish to pretend they are equal to men, they are far superior and always have been.

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

A movie will do in one second, with one image, what it will take a novelist at least a page to describe.

Poets think in short lines. Unless you're Samuel Beckett, Twitter might be more difficult for novelists.

How can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God?

Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.

I think most novelists I know, certainly including me, feel the novels choose them rather than vice-versa.

To what degree are historians chroniclers of the truth and to what degree are they just novelists, frankly?

And that singular anomaly, the lady novelist-- I don't think she'd be missed--I'm sure she'd not be missed!

The novelist works neither to correct nor to condone, not at all to comfort, but to make what's told alive.

Novelists don't age as quickly as philosophers, who often face professional senility in their late twenties.

The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him.

I used to describe myself as a comic novelist, but my concerns seem to have darkened over the past few years.

As far as he can achieve it, readability is as important for the scientific writer as it is for the novelist.

Even the best novelists are rarely congratulated on the quality of their observations about contemporary life.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

There are some novelists who can get away with writing about sex - Philip Roth, Ian McEwan - but they are rare.

A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

Great sorrow or great joy should bring intense hunger--not abstinence from food, as our novelists will have it.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.

For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo.

I'm proud to be a crime novelist. What I've chosen is the best way to convey the questions I'm trying to raise.

I saw novelists as being admirable people and I thought... I thought... maybe, one day, I could be one of them.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be.

I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies.

You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet.

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